Word: totalitarianism
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...Hueso (the Bone), is regarded as a moderate within the junta. Videla, who has resisted demands from hard-liners like Navy Admiral Emilio Massera for sterner repression of intellectuals and students, is committed to restoring civilian rule "once the situation permits." The military, he says, "does not have a totalitarian calling." Nonetheless, some Argentines fear there are high-ranking officers who would like to establish a neofascist regime...
...condemning the treatment of dissidents in the Soviet bloc. A plea to legalize the Communist Party is now before the Spanish Supreme Court, and the decision hinges on the court's finding of whether or not the party "submits to an international discipline" and "proposes to establish a totalitarian system." The joint declaration called for by Carrillo would have reinforced the party's claim to independence from Moscow and its commitment to democratic principles...
...that, the dissident movement is turning from an embarrassment into a potentially serious problem. It exists not only in the Soviet Union but all over Eastern Europe, where it is not simply a protest against Communist totalitarian practices but a nationalistic protest against Soviet colonial rule...
This time, both the guests and their setting (a tavern) are seedier. So are the cards, the so-called Marseille tarots first printed in the 18th century. More mythic figures appear among the guests, but the stories also take on sooty overtones of industrialism and hints of the modern totalitarian state. The author seeks his own story in the pack. "Perhaps," he ventures, "the moment has come to admit that only tarot number one honestly depicts what I have succeeded in being: a juggler, or conjurer, who arranges on a stand at a fair a certain number of objects...
...solemn promise in Helsinki 17 months ago to "respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all. " Despite this unambiguous pledge, Eastern Europe's Communist rulers have done almost nothing to fulfill it. Rumania and Bulgaria remain unreformed backwaters of totalitarianism. The Soviets keep hundreds of dissidents jailed, while penalizing and harassing thousands more who have attempted to voice unorthodox views. In the past two months, East Germany has arrested dozens of intellectuals, harassed citizens seeking to emigrate to the West, and exiled its leading folk-pop hero, Balladeer Wolf Biermann...